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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can think of a hundred jobs where people stand on their feet all day and can't pee on a whim. Geez[/quote]

How many of these 100's of these standing jobs without bathroom breaks require a college education and often a master's degree?  I can't think of them.[/quote]

Well, surgeons. But they get paid a lot, and people respect them.[/quote]

Okay, now PP only has to give me 99 more.[/quote]

Stop with the no bathroom breaks. You get a lunch break and planning periods. Yes I understand you have to work through them but that 3 opportunities to go. Before and after the kids leave that is 5 times in a 7 hour day. I'm sure if you need more than that you could get a doctors note and accommodation.
Love all your nursing friends who don't get that or people die[/quote]

Not the PP but I'd really love to know what schools have planning periods (plural!)

At the elementary level we'd have lunch and recess duty (rotating). Planning periods were cut down to 30 minutes a day (often less by the time all the kids left for specials and often they'd come back 5 minutes early and if there was a special event or a school play coming up we'd lose our prep time altogether). The 45 minutes before students arrived for the day were mandatory meetings, not planning time. After school there was bus duty, which frequently went past the regular contract time and I'd have to go back to my classroom afterwards to clean up and set up for the following day.

During prep I'd have just enough time to pee, set up for the afternoon, and sometimes write in student log books then the kids would be coming back down the hallway. That still left emails, copies, laminating, lesson plans, student concern meetings, writing IEPs, prep/planning for future days/activities, doing progress reports/report cards, creating or completing student behavior charts, data collection, completing induction requirements, submitting work orders for the things that were always breaking down, running to the book room to get materials, running to the office/storage rooms to get materials, DHS calls and follow ups (they were frequent), etc... I'd frequently have a 1-2 page to do list every single day and would only get through a very small portion of it.

Yes, nurses have difficult jobs too, but I rarely see people pissing on nurses and I rarely see so many misconceptions about nurses. [/quote] +1[/quote]

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